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Agnes Chase (1869-1963), Honorary Curator of the United States National Herbarium at the Smithsonian Institution and Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture, is seated at a table holding up a herbarium sheet with a grass specimen. Chase specialized in the study of grasses and conducted extensive field work in South America.